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the best mode, as giving least trouble to either party, and in 

 general securing variety, and picturesque effect. 



2dly, To give each villager a certain quantity only, and bind 

 him to a particular form of house ; which will generally be 

 found a bad mode : or, 



3dly, The proprietor building the houses at his own ex- 

 pence, and letting them out to the villagers, with the obli- 

 gation to preserve them in condition, under certain penal- 

 ties. This mode is a good one where cottage building is 

 not well understood, as in many parts of the highlands of 

 Scotland. 



By attending to the idea of a natural village, and to that of 

 one built after either of the last mentioned methods, such a o-e- 

 neral plan and situation might be fixed upon as would unite 

 beauty with utility. Unfortunately, however, most villages built 

 by proprietors are so stiff and formal as to be entirely destructive 

 of picturesque beauty, without exciting any idea sufficient to 

 compensate the want of it. As such villages contain cottages 

 generally two stories high, two families are obliged to lodge in 

 one house ; and this at once destroys the native liberty of the 

 cottager, and probably may introduce some of the corruptions 



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